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Nigel Whiteley - Design for Society - 9780948462658 - V9780948462658
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Design for Society

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Description for Design for Society Paperback. Although design has become eminently newsworthy among the general public in our society, there is very little understanding to be found of the values and implications that underlie it. This book analyses design's role and status, and discusses what our obsession with it tells us about our own culture. Num Pages: 182 pages, 41 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: AK; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 157 x 12. Weight in Grams: 302.

Although design has become eminently newsworthy among the general public in our society, there is very little understanding to be found of the values and implications that underlie it. Design generates much heat but little light: we live in a world that has much design consciousness, but little design awareness. Nigel Whiteley analyses design’s role and status today, and discusses...

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Although design has become eminently newsworthy among the general public in our society, there is very little understanding to be found of the values and implications that underlie it. Design generates much heat but little light: we live in a world that has much design consciousness, but little design awareness. Nigel Whiteley analyses design’s role and status today, and discusses what our obsession with it tells us about our own culture.



Design For Society is not an anti-design book; rather, it is an anti-consumerist-design book, in that it reveals what most people would agree are the socially and ecologically unsound values and unsatisfactory implications on which the system of consumerist design is constructed. In so doing, it prepares the ground for a more responsible and just type of design.

Product Details

Publisher
Reaktion Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
182
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Condition
New
Weight
301g
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780948462658
SKU
V9780948462658
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
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99-50

About Nigel Whiteley
Nigel Whiteley (1953-2010) was Professor of Visual Arts at the University of Lancaster. He is the author of Pop Design (1987), and co-editor of The Lamp of Memory: Ruskin, Tradition and Architecture (1992).

Reviews for Design for Society
Whiteleys look at design in the 1990s is an account of how the design industry, caught up in its own self-image for the past decade, needs to reinvent itself and focus again on its social role. This means taking greater account of green and feminist issues and creating a new type of socially responsible design. Surely a thesis of relevance...
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Whiteleys look at design in the 1990s is an account of how the design industry, caught up in its own self-image for the past decade, needs to reinvent itself and focus again on its social role. This means taking greater account of green and feminist issues and creating a new type of socially responsible design. Surely a thesis of relevance to architects.
RIBA Journal
His green and feminist critiques . . . blow a welcome breath of fresh air into the design profession.
The Ecologist
Whiteleys Design for Society is an important and well-reasoned explanation where design stands in relation to environment and ecology in the nineties. It will refocus the discussion from style to need and human issues. It should help to make the shift to more human and spiritual concerns visible to consumers, students and professionals in design.
Victor Papanek, author of Design for the Real World

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